I agree it will take some time for him to be his best again. I just hope he does!

you're right, gotta stick by Nadal through thick and thin

it will be hard bc i guess the mighty rafa for the past wont be around until he will have a lot of time on the tennis court so rafa fans should do WHAT I DID AS A FED FAN, block everything ppl say, not argue or something but let who want to say a bad thing say, i know my fed is not done after 2011 just like u have to have faith, those player are nothing like us, this is Elite athletes.

Hug it out as long as it takes, people
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Originally Posted by: Toni Nadal
Rafael has won more titles than Novak Djokovic, but speaking merely about tennis and about the game, Rafa has to be considered slightly lower than Djokovic. The Serb is such a good player that he is as close as you can get to Roger Federer

Nadal completed his career GS profiting from the absence of the defending champion who demolished him in that same tournament the year before.

So it would be the same for the 3 of them.

Agree.

The three Career Slam winners of this era would end up achieving it without playing the defending champ who beat them there the previous year. I think Nadal won't reach Djokovic at RG. I suspect Nadal will lose early there, R16? Federer avoided Nadal and Nadal avoided Del Potro.

Agassi beat Moya in 1999 though. Agassi's Career Slam is the most impressive because of the diversity of the surfaces in the 1990s.

I don’t think he necessarily needs time to be Nadal, but I think he needs some time for the other players to think of him as the old Nadal, because I think players lose a lot of respect: not respect for him as a person, but respect for his level,” Mats Wilander told DPA.

The Swede, a three-time French Open winner, is sure that even if his name is Rafael Nadal, “he’s still an outsider” in Paris this year, with Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Federer the men to beat.

“This is the year of and Novak and Andy’s chance to win the French, and Roger’s already won it, but it’s obviously his chance too,” Wilander said.